Getting it into your agent
It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tzachbon/smart-ralphnpx agentmods add skills/tzachbon/smart-ralph/reality-verificationWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/tzachbon/smart-ralph/reality-verification)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/tzachbon/smart-ralph/reality-verification"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/tzachbon/smart-ralph/reality-verification.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>- NVIDIA SkillSpector pass
What it costs to keep this loaded
Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00081 | $0.00872 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00041 | $0.00436 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00016 | $0.00174 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00008 | $0.00087 |
Grade A, and why
reality-verification scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 4d ago.
A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.
Nothing flagged
None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 111 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Reality Verification
For fix goals: reproduce the failure BEFORE work, verify resolution AFTER.
Goal Detection
Classify user goals to determine if diagnosis is needed. See references/goal-detection-patterns.md for detailed patterns.
Quick reference:
- Fix indicators: fix, repair, resolve, debug, patch, broken, failing, error, bug
- Add indicators: add, create, build, implement, new
- Conflict resolution: If both present, treat as Fix
Command Mapping
| Goal Keywords | Reproduction Command |
|---|---|
| CI, pipeline | gh run view --log-failed |
| test, tests | project test command |
| type, typescript | pnpm check-types or tsc --noEmit |
| lint | pnpm lint |
| build | pnpm build |
| E2E, UI | Playwright MCP browser tools |
| API, endpoint | WebFetch tool |
For E2E/deployment verification, use MCP tools (Playwright MCP browser tools for UI, WebFetch tool for APIs).
BEFORE/AFTER Documentation
BEFORE State (Diagnosis)
Document in .progress.md under ## Reality Check (BEFORE):
## Reality Check (BEFORE)
**Goal type**: Fix
**Reproduction command**: `pnpm test`
**Failure observed**: Yes
**Output**:
FAIL src/auth.test.ts Expected: 200 Received: 401
**Timestamp**: 2026-01-16T10:30:00Z
AFTER State (Verification)
Document in .progress.md under ## Reality Check (AFTER):
## Reality Check (AFTER)
**Command**: `pnpm test`
**Result**: PASS
**Output**:
PASS src/auth.test.ts All tests passed
**Comparison**: BEFORE failed with 401, AFTER passes
**Verified**: Issue resolved
VF Task Format
Add as task 4.3 (after PR creation) for fix-type specs:
- [ ] 4.3 VF: Verify original issue resolved
- **Do**:
1. Read BEFORE state from .progress.md
2. Re-run reproduction command: `<command>`
3. Compare output with BEFORE state
4. Document AFTER state in .progress.md
- **Verify**: `grep -q "Verified: Issue resolved" ./specs/<name>/.progress.md`
- **Done when**: AFTER shows issue resolved, documented in .progress.md
- **Commit**: `chore(<name>): verify fix resolves original issue`
What ships with it
2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.
What this file has done since we first saw it
Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.
- 4d ago First seen · 111 lines · 81 tokens per session scan A dd5607ae544b
reality-verification is a skill published in the GitHub repository tzachbon/smart-ralph (535 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 81 tokens to every session and 872 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.
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